8th Annual AUV Competition Results

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 10, 2005 @05:13AM from the blub-blub-blub-whirrrrrrr dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This weekend the 8th Annual Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Competition was held in San Diego. This year teams were challenged to complete three tasks including finding a docking station, inspecting a pipeline, and surfacing in a recovery zone marked by an acoustic pinger. Teams from MIT, Cornell, Duke and sixteen others competed for the grand prize. After an intense final round, the University of Florida's Team SubjuGator dethroned MIT and walked away with the victory. Interestingly, the UF team ran Windows XP on their embedded computer."

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of COURSE it was an XP system... by ki4iib · 2005-08-10 05:26 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Interestingly, the UF team ran Windows XP on their embedded computer.

'course it was! What other OS would win an AUV competition? After all, XP is just NT redone, and as we all know, NT sinks ships...
Re:XP Embedded by gus+goose · 2005-08-10 05:36 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Assuming parent is a bona-fide posting ... it scares me that the developers of airplane navigation systems are content with "quite stable".

gus

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